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I need to publish my website into a subfolder of an existing one. Notice that there's no way to create a subdomain (e.g.: http://mynewwebsite.example.com), no way to access to IIS. At the moment I just tried to use the Publish command from my VS2010 and copy/paste file from my disk to subfolder domain via FTP. This is the error I get:
The file '/SUBFOLDERNAME/default.aspx' has not
been pre-compiled, and cannot be requested.
Is there someone who can help me? Thank you in advance.
I would classify it as a serverfault question. But since you asked my two cents.
You could set this in your web.config
<location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false">
<system.web>
...
</system.web>
</location>
What it does?
inheritInChildApplications
Optional Boolean attribute.
Specifies whether configuration settings that are specific to a certain location (such as the root directory of a Web site) are inherited by applications that exist in subdirectories.
The default is True.
More Info: How to disable web.config Inheritance for Child Applications in Subfolders in ASP.NET?
no way to access to IIS
You must create an application (virtual directory) in IIS the first time you publish your application. If you can't access IIS directly, you can alter your web.config as suggested in another answer. But that only works with IIS 7.5 (Server 2008 R2) and later. If you're not running at least Server 2008 R2, you won't be able to do this without accessing IIS.
